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Zafehouse: Diaries cover art

Zafehouse: Diaries

Screwfly Studios · 2013-09-06

SteamGOG

IndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 05, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety from the roving undead. A sophisticated engine generates new survivors, towns and content so every adventure is a different experience, and you can use built-in editors to add yourself and...

0
playing now
68%
positive of 442 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Zafehouse: Diaries is a turn-based strategy video game in which the player must guide the survivors of a zombie apocalypse to safety. It was released in September 2012 by the Australian independent developer Screwfly Studios, a start-up company formed by two former magazine editors.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 38% of 18,216 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 18k–35k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 442 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$0.99-50%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.01 at Steam (2014-11-28) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 27 of 44 observed days · $0.98 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.392015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-07-10 — best price $4.992015-12-12 — best price $1.992016-06-22 — best price $9.992016-11-03 — best price $9.992016-12-22 — best price $1.692017-11-22 — best price $0.992018-02-15 — best price $0.992018-11-27 — best price $1.992019-05-20 — best price $1.992019-12-19 — best price $0.992020-05-11 — best price $0.992020-11-02 — best price $1.992021-02-15 — best price $1.992021-10-28 — best price $0.992022-01-24 — best price $0.992022-06-06 — best price $0.992022-10-27 — best price $0.992023-01-23 — best price $0.992023-07-04 — best price $1.992023-11-02 — best price $1.992024-02-06 — best price $1.992024-04-17 — best price $1.992024-07-11 — best price $1.992024-10-28 — best price $0.992025-01-02 — best price $1.992025-04-03 — best price $1.992025-06-18 — best price $0.992025-09-29 — best price $0.992025-11-06 — best price $0.992026-03-11 — best price $0.992026-06-17 — best price $0.992026-08-30 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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Player tags

RPGIndieSandboxZombiesStrategySurvivalDifficultRogue-likeSimulationText-Based

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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